Senior Software Engineer

Job Title: Senior Software Engineer

Industry: Fintech

Contract Duration: 6 months

Location: New York, NY (Hybrid, 3 days in office)

Day Rate: $60 - $100 per day

The Role:

• Join a Core Platform team at a leading fintech company that builds brokerage infrastructure used by financial institutions globally
• Design and develop shared Java services, libraries and APIs consumed by multiple engineering teams across the organisation
• Work on event driven infrastructure using Kafka to enable scalable and decoupled communication patterns between services
• Build and maintain internal developer tooling and self service capabilities that reduce friction across the full development lifecycle
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation that help every engineering team in the business ship faster and more safely
• Collaborate with senior engineers and technical leads on architecture reviews, platform design and inner source initiatives
• Write thorough automated tests including unit, integration and contract tests for platform services that other teams depend on
• Work closely with DevOps and SRE teams to improve build tooling and deployment processes across the engineering organisation

Skills Needed:

• 3 to 5 years of Java development experience with a focus on shared services, platform engineering or internal tooling
• Solid API design skills including versioning, backwards compatibility and clear documentation practices
• Hands on experience with Kafka, SQS or another messaging system in a production environment
• Strong relational database knowledge with PostgreSQL or MySQL including schema design and query optimisation
• AWS cloud native experience and familiarity with cloud native architectures
• CI/CD pipeline experience, bonus if you have built or improved tooling used by other developers
• Automated testing experience including unit, integration and contract tests
• A service oriented mindset with strong communication skills and a collaborative approach

Research indicates that men will apply to a role when they meet only 50–60% of the requirements, while women and other underrepresented groups often look for a 90–100% match. If this role excites you but you don't tick every single box, please still apply. We'd love to hear from you.